The old manor house
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The old manor house
（Broadview literary texts）
Broadview Press, c2002
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-587)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable members, the dispossessed.
Appendices in this edition include: contemporary responses; writings on the genre debate by Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Moore, and Walter Scott; and historical documents focusing on property laws as well as the American and French revolutions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charlotte Turner Smith: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Old Manor House
Appendix A: Reviews and Notices of The Old Manor House
The Analytical Review (1793)
The Critical Review (1793)
The Monthly Review (1793)
Walter Scott, "Charlotte Smith," Miscellaneous Prose Works (1834)
Appendix B: The Genre Debate
Anna Letitia Barbauld, "An Enquiry into Those Kinds of Distress which Excite Agreeable Sensations," MiscellaneousPieces in Prose (1773)
John Moore, "A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance" (1797)
Walter Scott, "Romance," Miscellaneous Prose Works (1834)
Appendix C: Blackstone's Views on the Laws of Property
"The Rights of Things," Commentaries on the Laws of England (1766)
Appendix D: War and Its Effect
Poetic Responses
From Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants (1793)
William Wordsworth, "The Discharged Soldier" (1798)
The American Revolution
The Repeal Act (1766)
The Declaratory Act (1766)
The American Prohibitory Act (1775)
Speech by General John Burgoyne (1777)
Letter from John Adams (1775)
A Speech to the Six Confederate Nations (1775)
The French Revolution
The Analytical Review (1789)
James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution, and its English Admirers, against the accusations of The Right Hon. E. Burke (1791)
Royal Proclamation Against Seditious Writings (1792)
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